Dr Marc Stalmans

Stalmans, Marc E.

Dr Marc Stalmans

Marc Stalmans is an ecologist with 30 years of conservation research, planning, management and development experience in the public, parastatal and private sector. He has been involved in projects in the Middle East (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar), in African countries (Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Libya, Mozambique, Morocco, Senegal, South Africa, Togo, Zambia and Zimbabwe), and in the Far East (India, China and Indonesia). These projects cover conservation and management planning for national parks and other protected areas, Transfrontier conservation planning, eco-tourism development plans, wildlife censuses, carrying capacity assessments, monitoring, fire management, landscape mapping and vegetation studies. He has been involved in the theoretical and practical development of biodiversity offsets. He has been appointed by IUCN on the Independent Expert Panel to provide biodiversity conservation input to Holcim, one of the world’s leading cement and aggregates producers. Since 2012, he also serves as Director of Scientific Services for the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. He leads the research program and the development of the EO Wilson Biodiversity Laboratory in the Park that is under restoration. Marc is an Agricultural Engineer (with specialization in Forestry and Limnology). He has a Postgraduate Certificate in Tropical Animal Health & Production and holds a MSc in Botany and a PhD in Landscape Ecology.